Science Quotes

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

Building up arms is not a substitute for diplomacy.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let’s roll out the welcome mat.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

I am tired of all this thing called science here. We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

In not only the physical science, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

Science is always inquiring.

In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.